More than a century after publishing major papers in theoretical mathematics, German-born Emmy Noether continues to challenge ...

BYU mathematics professor Doug Corey and a team of students created a YouTube channel devoted to applying theoretical math concepts to real-world problems. Imagine this: the BYU Cougars men’s ...

Interdisciplinary visual artist Timea Tihanyi and mathematician Jayadev Athreya, who are collaborating on Axiomatic. Photo: Clare McGrane, GeekWire. At first glance, Timea Tihanyi and Jayadev Athreya ...

Monstrous moonshine, a quirky pattern of the monster group in theoretical math, has a shadow -- umbral moonshine. Mathematicians have now proved this insight, known as the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture, ...

Last month, six Cornell faculty members received the Simons Fellowship, which provides funding for a research leave. Three received the Theoretical Physics fellowship and three received the ...

In an attempt to attract more freshmen to theoretical mathematics, the math department expanded its offerings this school year. Last fall, it introduced the MATH 60 “Modern Mathematics: Discrete ...

Mathematics is one of the oldest disciplines of study. For all its antiquity, however, it is a modern, rapidly growing field. Only 70 years ago, mathematics might have been said to consist of algebra, ...

Each year, the MacArthur Foundation announces its MacArthur Fellows or “Geniuses,” a class of researchers, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and more who are changing the world through their endless ...

For a lot of students with a passion for math, it’s all about the numbers. They love the structure of it, the consistency of it. They love the formulas, that one plus one will always equal two. For ...